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La Caña

By Ernesto Saavedra This past summer, I was invited to check out a mural some friends of mine were working on located on the outskirts of the Tower District, specifically, on Olive between Arthur and [...] Continue Reading

The Trauma of Slavery and Paper Dolls

By Ernesto Saavedra (Author’s note: Leading up to Fresno’s Downtown and Tower District monthly ArtHop events, Kezia Harrell, an artist attending San Francisco’s Art Institute with roots in Fresno, [...] Continue Reading

Tiffany’s Take: Inspiration

I got nothin’. I’ve sat down to write this month’s column more than a few times and, ultimately, my steadfast process seems to have turned on me. Nothing (and I mean, nothing) has flowed from my [...] Continue Reading

Poetry Corner

Just A Convict By Antonio Smith Bars on the windows Broken Dreams Tears out of the blue Sometimes screams Lockers too small For what one needs No courtesy Just cons and greed Slave labor No law [...] Continue Reading

In This Space

By Steve Umfrid They whys of it all escape me As I lay here on my side, Arms raised in front of my face A shield to block the constant light. Cold seeps through the concrete Chilling my forearms, [...] Continue Reading

Emotional Beginnings

By Ernesto Saavedra In the late 1990s, psychologist Daniel Goleman proposed that how one views and understands their own emotions and others’ emotions, and how one deals with them, is a form of [...] Continue Reading

Rainmaker

By Stephen Barile from Tulare Lake   To stave off a drought in 1924, Wheat farmers in the Tulare Lake bottom Hired Hatfield the Rainmaker man And paid him a hefty fee, For he was in demand throughout [...] Continue Reading